May 2026 at the Coolidge

Now that the April showers are (allegedly) over, is it time for May flowers yet? Our special programming is the perfect way to start your spring off right!

This month sees a sweeping series of films about filmmaking; a Studio Ghibli series centered around a new 4K restoration of Kiki’s Delivery Service; two five-week classes; the return of our Queering the Screen signature program; plenty of speaker engagements; and more.

Read on for everything we’re screening this month!

Take Two: Filmmaking in the Movies

Our sweeping May series about the messy, hilarious, and occasionally disastrous business of making movies! Plus, take the class in tandem with the series.
Sponsored by MUBI!

Ghibliotheque

Join us for a week of screenings celebrating the incredible films of Studio Ghibli, centered around a new 4K restoration of Kiki’s Delivery Service!
Co-presented by the Japan Society of Boston!

Speaker Engagements

Like your screenings with a side of talkbacks? Catch a screening with a speaker discussion for O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Slowburn Shoot: An Indie Wrestling Story; Frankenstein; Move Ya Body: The Birth of House; and Babystar.

Big Screen Classics

Watch certified classics the way they were meant to be seen. This month, catch a Shadow of a Doubt plus an intro seminar, The Passion of Joan of Arc, and Jurassic Park!
Co-presented in-kind by WBUR and the Iris Hotel Boston.

Coolidge After Midnite

Celebrate a true master of the macabre, director Sam Raimi! Kiss your nerves goodbye as we screen his Evil Dead franchise hits as well as some of his lesser-known nightmares, many from 35mm prints (and one on VHS!). Also, wrestling movies!

Cult Classics

Our signature program dedicated to showcasing films with fervent fan bases and unforgettable impact! This month’s picks are Cecil B. Demented and The Stunt Man!

Coolidge Education

Take one of our five-week classes about Paul Thomas Anderson or filmmaking in the movies, learn more at a seminar before Shadow of a Doubt or American Movie, and showcase your short film at Boston Open Screen!

Cinema Masala

Our series celebrating Indian cinema! This month, see Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Zoya Akhtar’s popular road comedy.
Co-presented by Film Heritage Foundation and Sapna Saxena!

More Good Stuff

  • Tommy: Thursday, May 7 at 7:00pm | Cinema Jukebox co-presented in-kind by Allston Pudding

  • The Princess Diaries: Thursday, May 21 at 7:00pm | Rewind! with afterparty including themed food and drinks

  • The General: Tuesday, May 26 at 7:00pm | The Sounds of Silents featuring a live, original score by the Anvil Orchestra

This Week

  • The eagerly awaited sequel to the 2006 phenomenon that defined a generation. 

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  • Award-winning director Sophy Romvari’s lyrical and profound feature debut.

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  • The new film from Kristoffer Borgli (Dream Scenario), starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson.

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  • She rocks. She rules. She reigns.

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  • A ragtag crew of underground filmmakers known as the Sprocket Holes, who abhor conventional cinema, rebel against the tenets of mainstream Hollywood.

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  • A horror writer visits an Irish inn to scatter his parents' ashes, unaware the property is said to be haunted by a witch.

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  • A gingko tree bears witness to the lives of three generations of people, as they are quietly transformed by the mysterious power of nature.

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  • Welcome to a new world of style.

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  • Evil Dead 2013 and Evil Dead Rise

    Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead legacy continues in these two horrifying films.

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  • They're the wrestlers who are better than all the restlers.

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  • In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the MCU unlocks the Multiverse and pushes its boundaries further than ever before

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  • adaptation SYNECDOCHE double feature

    Writers obsess, dreams unravel, and art imitates life in this mind-bending double dive into creativity run wild.

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  • An adventure 65 million years in the making.

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  • Join professor Andre Puca of Emerson College as he explores the style and themes of Anderson’s films spanning all 3 decades of his noteworthy career

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  • Olivier Assayas’s live-wire international breakthrough stars a magnetic Maggie Cheung as a version of herself.

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  • Richard Linklater's funny, affectionate, and clear-eyed look at high school life with a precise feel for the '70s and a killer soundtrack.

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  • With Elegance Bratton and producer Chester Algernal Gordon in person, moderated by Joseph V. Porter.

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  • A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

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  • He does wild and crazy things because he has nothing to lose... but his life.

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